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Mark Martin has won a lot of races over his long career, made plenty of friends, earned tons of respect.

First-round tee times for BMW Championship

Inside NASCAR: Race to the Chase all about numbers, reflection

Penn State will play at Alabama on Saturday, which is sure to remind Coach Joe Paterno about his friend and rival Bear Bryant, who died in 1983.

For a hatful of reasons,
world number one Tiger Woods is almost certain to be hungrier
than ever before to make an impact at next month’s Ryder Cup.

Wind remains a signature feature of Ashe Stadium, considered the hardest environment among the Grand Slam center courts.

Britain’s outspoken Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Sherard Cowper-Coles has quit his post following a reported clash with NATO and US officials on fighting the Taliban.

A 16-year-old British schoolgirl, who became the country’s youngest female after killing her alcoholic father and a woman companion, was today sentenced to life imprisonment.

EXCLUSIVE: The stoner comedy has a long and illustrious tradition, starting with the oeuvre of Cheech & Chong and continuing right through "Pineapple Express" and the antics of Harold & Kumar.

We may soon be able to add another to the genre: "We're the Millers," a long-developed film that's now getting some new momentum. In the film, which is being developed by New Line, slackers aren't sitting around taking puffs and dreaming big. In fact the main character in this one, a veteran pot dealer, is actually pretty ambitious — so ambitious that he decides to create a fake family (the eponymous Millers) to move a large shipment of marijuana across the U.S. border from Mexico.

New Line and producers are narrowing down their director search on the film. Sources say that Burr Steers, coming off his "Charlie St. Cloud" this summer, is a finalist to land the director's chair, as is the duo of Sean Anders and John Morris (the pair wrote "Hot Tub Time Machine" and directed the road-trip bawdiness that was "Sex Drive").

"Millers" comes with a strong comedic pedigree: Dan Fybel and Rich Rinaldi, who've written scripts for TV series such as "The Sarah Silverman Program" and "The Hard Life of R.J. Berger" have written the latest draft of the script. (Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, best known for "Wedding Crashers," wrote the original draft.) Steve Buscemi was attached to star a few years ago, back when "Millers" was first coming together, but producers probably will be re-casting.

With medical marijuana getting an increasing amount of attention in California, it's time we suppose, for another stoner comedy. Or high time.

–Steven Zeitchik

http://twitter.com/ZeitchikLAT

Photo: Up in Smoke. Credit: Paramount

The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July.